Irony Facts

The Bible is among the most-shoplifted books in the world.

The U.S. has more bagpipe bands than Scotland does.

The CIA once spent $20 million on a cat equipped with gear to spy on the Soviets, but it was hit by a taxi.

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

President Bush and Saddam Hussein both had their shoes made by the same Italian shoemaker!

It is illegal to purchase or consume Jack Daniel's Whiskey in the town in which it is produced!

The electric chair was invented by a dentist!

Although Nostradamus died in the middle of 1566, his 1567 almanac was published because he had the foresight to prepare it before his death.

Benito Mussolini fled to Switzerland in 1902 to avoid Italian military service, where he lived as a vagrant and was arrested multiple times before being expelled from the country.

In Mel Brooks' 1976 film 'Silent Movie,' mime Marcel Marceau is the only person who has a speaking role.

There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones!

Three Mile Island is only 2 1/2 miles long.

No one really knows who invented the fire hydrant, because its patent was burned in a fire.

The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.

In 2007, a Bosnian couple found out that they had been cheating on one another in online chatrooms... with each other.

Is bottled water worth it? 'Evian' spelled backwards is 'naive'.

In 2005, a man named Ronald MacDonald robbed Wendy's.

Gary Kremen, the founder of Match.com, had a classic startup problem: no users. His solution was to get everyone at the company, plus friends and family, to create profiles. That included his girlfriend. The strategy worked a little too well — she met someone else on the site and left him.

Of all things, Andrew Jackson's tombstone does not mention that he served as the president of the United States!

When pirate Jean Lafitte saw the governor advertising a $500 reward for his capture, Lafitte offered $5,000 for the capture of the governor.

Seann William Scott, who played the over-the-top Stifler in the American Pie films, was extremely shy in real life and didn't have a girlfriend until he was 27 years old.

Author Ian McEwan helped his son write his A-level English exam about one of his own novels, Enduring Love. The teacher disagreed with his interpretation.

Jeremy Clarkson once published his bank account number and sort code to prove that the information couldn't be used to steal money. Someone used it to set up a monthly direct debit from his bank account to a charity.

Walt Disney was a high school dropout and he was fired by a newspaper editor because "he lacked imagination and had no good ideas."